The Times Ponders the Calendar

Today’s New York Times Corrections section discourses on an obscure bit of newspaper history. It fails to address, though, a more fundamental question: don’t its editors know how many days there are in February?

An article on Thursday about the arraignment of three men in the shooting of two New York police officers, one of whom died, misstated the schedule set by a judge for a trial in the case. The trial is expected to begin by February, not by